Ebooks vs Ereaders -Used Books are Green

Ebooks - Ereaders vs Paper Books - Ebooks are not green.
Paper books have survived the test of time. Real books are tangible and tactile.
A book is paper, ink, and binding. Ebooks are not books.

There is no end to all the devices you can buy now. Tablets, Ipads, netbooks, laptops, cell phones, iphones, and so on.
Each new gadget will become obsolete in a few years. Books will never completely become obsolete.
Sometimes it is good to use the time tested ways of learning, reading, and studying.

Links to free e-books online, see below:

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Boycott Kindle ebooks, Kobo, Sony Ereader, Google ebooks, and Amazon!

Ereaders are over priced, wasteful, and toxic gadgets. Good authors and journalists need to be paid well for their hard work. Do not allow giant corporations to monopolize the book market and to control prices. We already have lap tops, computers, iphones, tablets, and touch pads. Why buy an ereader as well?

Free ebooks have been around for years and now they want you to pay!

Boycott the ebook industry. Stare at real paper for hours, not screens!

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Free Google Books -Beware, because Google tracks your search terms!

Free Audio Books

Free-ebooks.net

Project Gutenberg - Free ebooks

Internet Archive

Higher Intellect

There are many free ebooks if you search online.

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Ebooks are not books. A book is bound paper and ink, not electronic technology.

Places with real books need to be walked to. You should not sit for long with all your electronic screens.

Do you want a real world of interesting real places, or a fake, virtual, electronic world, and be too alone?

The medium is the message. What is the message of the new medium? What is lost? What is gained?
The new electronic mediums focus us more on trivia in the present, with less historic understanding.

Fellow paper book readers are out there, and you should go to meet them face to face.

A book allows you to focus on one author, their work, and for hours without distractions. A book is a very careful encounter with a writer, privately, and electronic applications might distract you.

It is a wonderful experience to visit a library, a book store, or real friends with beautiful home libraries.

An old paper book can be rare, out of print, highly valued, of historical importance, and a great work of art.

A finely bound, limited print, beautiful book is one of a kind, to be felt, looked at, shared, and admired.

Real paper books can be reused and recycled for hundreds of years.

A real book is easy to use, and you will spend less time with another electronic gadget.

With a real book you can write notes in the margins with great ease, and flip quickly to that page.

You can quickly flip through a real book and skim the pages, getting easily to those pages you remember.

A household of two people or more will require many ereaders, and new ones over decades. This will cost you thousands of dollars. A small home library can be shared with family, friends, and neighbours for centuries.

You own a paper book, and it is in your possession as property. Your ebook can be deleted with ease.
Software bugs and hardware breaks can make ebooks unreadable.

You can share real books with friends and family for free, with great ease.

Real books never need to be plugged in with a cord. Used books are very inexpensive, and they will never fully break. You can throw a book and jump on it. A book can be taken out into the wilderness for decades.

Paper books are a part of our history and they will always be. Ebooks can be tracked, controlled by a third party, lost easily, and even deleted.

A personalized, hard cover, great book in your possession, can be passed along for generations.

Ereaders will break and become obsolete in only a few years. An ebook might not make it to your new electronic library. An ebook is easily deleted or forgotten, but a real book goes on and on.

Ereaders, kindles, and kobos mean more toxic wastes in our environment. Generations of electronic gadgets will be a huge source of toxic wastes and toxic jobs. Books can be composted and reused.

Each new technology is a fad, soon greatly changed or forgotten.

When you need to start a camp fire to keep warm, would you burn a book or an e-reader?

There are plenty of free ebooks that can be downloaded with ease. Do not buy another costly electronic device that you really do not need. TV and radio never replaced books, and neither will ebooks or ereaders.

Enjoy a good old book, given to you as a gift. Enjoy a real book, passed down to you by your parents.

A real book can be a reminder of good memories. Books on your shelves are memories of your past. Your personal library says a lot about you. Your generic ereader says nothing about you.

A real book cannot be copied with ease, which helps the author make enough money to live.
Will ebooks cause great journalism and excellent authors to decline in quality?

Excellent local journalists need to be paid to write well researched articles.
Will the quality of news decline with ebooks, blogs, and papers?
Do real books require more editing, peer reviews, effort, time, and careful consideration?
Real books are less anonymous, with better proven sources?

Beautiful books can be sold later, and they can be an investment. Some books are great art objects.

Look at the wonderful books along your wall. They are pleasing to look at. Book covers can be great art.

What would this world be like without real books? Less community libraries and real outings?

How will you meet fellow book lovers in person if you stay at home ordering ebooks?

Software problems can cause the ereader or tablet to freeze up.
There are the real dangers of data theft, data mining, identity theft, hackers, trackers, spyware, and viruses.

Electronic devices are not very robust. If you spill liquid on them that could be the end of your reader.
An ereader needs to avoid scratches, dropping, extreme temperatures, rain, and so on.

Books can be jumped on hard, up and down, and they still work! You cannot break a book.

Be sure to support our community libraries and book stores.

Real books do not need charging, a cord, and they produce less toxic wastes, being recycled over and over again.

Many of the plastic ereaders will get thrown in the garbage or become obsolete, or are replaced in a few years.

Books are an experience, in 3D, easily flipped through, with a smell, feel, and visual appeal.

Books and ebooks are very different. One is a cover, paper, and ink, the other is a flat electronic screen.

The content of a book is probably better read and carefully studied more as a paper product in your hands.

You can clearly own a physical book. Some virtual books can be deleted by others.

Many toxic wastes are polluting the bodies of poor workers in other countries that process the electronic waste.

A stolen book will cost you way less than a stolen ereader, ipad, or tablet.

A physical book will last for generations off the power grid, in a time capsule, or on another planet.

Our shared history is founded on books, and not on some fake virtual world. Books are living history.

We need a shared culture, where most of us have read some of the same books.
Online books number in the millions, further dividing us into specialized groups with less common ground.

Bound paper books help us to develop human culture.
What will we change into if we abandon our ancient ways of education, learning, writing, reading, and studying?

You can have a holy or sacred book, but there are no special and important cultural ebooks.

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